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Examining Benchmarking

Posted by michael on from the no-benches-involved dept.

VL writes "Benchmarks exist to determine how a particular piece of hardware performs in relation to itself, and to others. Question is, are readers getting the information they really need?"

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  1. Hardware compared to itself? by Cancel · · Score: 5, Funny
    Benchmarks exist to determine how a particular piece of hardware performs in relation to itself, and to others.
    Well, yep. Turns out my current PC configuration is 100% as good as my current PC configuration! That's an increase of 0%! I'm sure glad I ran that benchmark, or else I'd never know how much of a boost I got with my latest purchase of, well, nothing.
  2. Re:Goedel says benchmarks are inherently flawed. by digitalhermit · · Score: 5, Funny

    Umm, yeah. Godel's Incompleteness Theorem of course applies to any system, regardless of whether "system" defines a set of axiomatic rules or a bunch of PC parts. Of course, we could also say that Heisenberg Uncertainty puts any benchmark into doubt, and if we assign a number to any attribute of the system we cannot then trust other numbers. I know I'm taking some liberty with the applicability of HUT, but hey, why not. Then there's the whole Hilbert Space objections to these arbitrary transforms; without any Kolmogorov-Smirnov test we cannot trust, in the mathematical sense, the reducibility of any Eigenfunction. The Smirnov test is perhaps not ideal; maybe Bacardi-Walker would be better, or at least produce more interesting (in a completely Lanis-Morton sense) results.

  3. Proper Method for Benchmarking by akedia · · Score: 5, Funny

    1. Aquire your piece of test equipment (video card, motherboard, tower case)
    2. Hold the equipment 3 to 5 feet above the bench surface
    3. Release. Gravity will take care of the test
    4. Measure the mark left in the bench by the equipment. Bigger mark = better equipment.

  4. Studying Benchmarking? by stock · · Score: 4, Funny
    Come on!

    There's Lies, there's damn Lies and finally there are benchmarks.

    Robert